Founded in 2001, Skram Furniture is based in North Carolina and is known for its beautifully-crafted furniture and lighting designs that combine natural materials – wood, metals, leather, cork, and stone – to create innovative, modern forms. Skram manipulates these materials in both traditional, time-honored ways as well as availing itself of state-of-the-art 21st century production technologies. Founder and principal designer, A. Jacob Marks, is distinguished for his organic, hand-shaped seating and spare, rectilinear casegoods and tables – unique in their negotiation of proportion, line, and visual weight. Marks notes that “our products are a distillation of the essential; they are a spare negotiation of beauty, utility and durability. With each object, we embark on a measured refinement to find its core, which is then expressed through a graceful coalescence of form, line, proportion and materiality.”